Staff Software Engineer — Core OS & Hypervisor

General Motors; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Relocation benefits

GM benefits package

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a senior Core OS engineer to define the OS foundation for their software-defined vehicles. You will drive hypervisor integration, VM partitioning, and guest OS enablement across embedded Linux, Yocto, Android, and QNX, ensuring secure boot and platform reliability.

You’ll lead complex debugging across hardware, firmware, and software layers, mentor teammates, and contribute to CI/CD, tooling, and release processes in a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• Ten or more years of professional experience in embedded, systems, or kernel-level software development, including production software in automotive or similarly complex embedded domains.
• Deep expertise in operating-system-level software on Arm-based SoCs, with experience in several areas such as hypervisor integration, VM configuration, device virtualization, RTOS, Linux kernel, bootloaders, Yocto, and performance debugging.
• Strong experience with build systems and tools including Git, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and release-quality engineering for platform software.
• Strong proficiency in C and C++, plus Python and shell scripting for automation, tooling, and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Own critical hypervisor and virtual machine capabilities, including VM definitions and partitioning.
• Design and optimize communication between VMs using shared memory and virtual I/O.
• Enable guest OS support across embedded Linux, Yocto, Android, and QNX.
• Implement and optimize boot and secure-boot chains across partitions.
• Build platform services for governance, health monitoring, and fault handling.
• Develop container-runtime and workload-management for in-vehicle apps.
• Profile and debug CPU/memory/IO across the stack; lead root-cause analysis.
• Improve CI/CD, automation, testing, and code reviews; mentor cross-team engineers.

Skills

Hypervisor integration

VM configuration

Device virtualization

RTOS & scheduling

Linux kernel

Yocto builds

C and C++

Python scripting

Shell scripting

Git / GitHub

CI/CD pipelines

Root-cause analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

Master's degree in CS/EE

Tools

Gunyah

QNX Hypervisor

Xen

KVM/ARM

Yocto

AOSP / QNX SDP

Job description

General Motors is seeking a senior Core OS engineer to define the OS foundation for their software-defined vehicles. You will drive hypervisor integration, VM partitioning, and guest OS enablement across embedded Linux, Yocto, Android, and QNX, ensuring secure boot and platform reliability.

You’ll lead complex debugging across hardware, firmware, and software layers, mentor teammates, and contribute to CI/CD, tooling, and release processes in a hybrid work model.